This zucchini slice is our late nan’s recipe.  It is something that we make on a regular basis, mainly because everyone eats it, but also because it is great for lunches and makes a lot and it is fairly cost-effective.   You could bulk it up with extra veggies, but we pretty much just stick to what’s on the list.

TIP: We use a mix of parmesan and taste cheese. Feel free to add more cheese if you want it cheesier.
TIP: Make sure to use large eggs.
TIP: If you don’t have any vegetable stock paste, then simply add a few good grindings of salt and pepper.
TIP: We can attest that wheat, spelt, or buckwheat flours all work well in this recipe.
TIP: You could add 4 cut up rashers of bacon into this if you wanted to.

Related recipe: Vegetable stock paste

February 20, 2018
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Ingredients

  • 2 zucchini
  • 2 carrot
  • 1 brown onion
  • 5 egg
  • 2 tbsp. vegetable stock paste (or a few good grindings of salt and pepper)
  • 30 g olive oil
  • 1 c plain flour
  • 80 g cheese

Instructions

Thermal Cooking Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180ºC. Grease and flour a medium sized baking dish.
  2. Place zucchini, carrots, and onion into mixing jug and blitz for 3 seconds/speed 5. Scrape down sides and blitz again for 1 second at a time until the veggies are the size you like.
  3. Tip vegetables out into a large bowl.
  4. Roughly dice cheese and blitz for 5 seconds/speed 6. Tip cheese into bowl with vegetables.
  5. Add eggs, oil, vegetable stock paste, and plain flour into the bowl (with the rest of the ingredients) and mix with a spatula until combined. This mixture is too large for your thermal cooking appliance to handle, so please don't try.
  6. Pour mixture into baking dish and bake in the oven for around 45-60 minutes or until cooked through and golden on top.

Traditional Cooking Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180ºC. Grease and flour a medium sized baking dish.
  2. Grate zucchini, carrots, onion and cheese and add them all to a large mixing bowl.
  3. Add eggs, oil, vegetable stock paste, and plain flour into the mixing bowl (with the rest of the ingredients) and mix with a spatula until combined.
  4. Pour mixture into baking dish and bake in the oven for around 45-60 minutes or until cooked through and golden on top.
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